For the second consecutive year, OFFF Barcelona brings back The Screen – a spectacular mapping experience projected on the façade of Disseny Hub Barcelona. Over three nights on April 16-18, the building comes alive with animated works from motion artists across the globe. The project is co-produced with Frameboy and powered by Barco.

General info:

ℹ️ Every piece will be shown twice each evening – from 21:00 to 22:00 and again from 22:00 to 23:00. Each night will have a different Open Call showcase part.

📍Plaça de Santiago Pey, façade of Disseny Hub Barcelona

🎟️ Free entry

⏱️ Show time:

21:00 Artists curated by OFFF

21:20 OFFF 2026 Main Titles by PJ Richardson

21:30 Collaborative piece of selected Open Call projects

22:00 Second screening (except Main Titles)

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The program is divided into three chapters:

Chapter 1: Artists curated by OFFF

A curated selection of avant-garde digital creators, handpicked by OFFF, presenting exclusive mapping works created specifically for the festival. The lineup brings together Barcelona-based alongside prominent international names:

Burton Rast (USA) present"Heavy"

About artwork:

Heavy is a decade-long expression of the sacredness of grief. The piece is proof of all that has survived, the echo of love that refuses to die. When you’re carrying something that’s too heavy, set it down. You don’t have to let it go, just set it down.

About artist:

Burton Rast is a San Francisco-based artist and designer with over 25 years across design leadership, creative direction, interaction design, photography, data visualization, and filmmaking. His unintentionally moody imagery appears in publications worldwide. He lectures at conferences, companies, and universities globally on hard-fought truths learned in and out of the workplace.

Caserne (CA) present "A is for Architecture"

About artwork:

A typographic reading of Catalan modernism. Each Caserne designer interprets a word from its formal vocabulary—Acanthus, Anamorphic, Arcature, Asymmetry, Anisotropy—into a singular typographic form. The ten words unfold across the museum's angular façade, creating a tension between historic modernism and the contemporary design institution.

About studio:

Caserne is a Montreal-based design studio named Canadian Design Studio of the Year three consecutive years running. For over 14 years, they've transformed ideas into action, building iconic brands rooted in strong narratives and clear missions. Their work spans local and international collaborators including Moment Factory, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Téléfilm Canada, and 2K Games. In 2021, Caserne founded Forum, an annual graphic design event bringing together leading international voices.

Framemov (BCN) present "Zig, The Idea"

Onion Lab (BCN) present "Ciutat Contínua"

About artwork:

Ciutat Continua is an essay in synthetic architecture. Onionlab explores Barcelona’s architectural imagination. Based on previous projections by the same studio, continuous sequences are generated – with the help of AI … that traverse and reimagine the city’s architectural identity

About studio:

ONIONLAB is a Barcelona-based multidisciplinary studio specializing in audiovisual installations and exhibitions. Combining space and content, they create interactive experiences for cultural events and exhibitions—from initial concept to final delivery—with a focus on aesthetic precision, technical innovation, and themes like sustainability. Their work spans 3D projection mapping, AR/VR, AI, and light programming.

Credits:

Music: El Shinji Wakasa

Sound design: ABSIS

SomniaLab (BCN) present "Cartography of Touch"

About artwork:

Cartography of Touch is a choreographed performance in which a group of dancers transform the façade of the Design Hub into a living body. Through gesture and movement, their hands appear to touch, shape and sculpt the architecture, generating optical illusions while exploring how we engage with surfaces and the traces that touch leaves behind.

About studio:

SomniaLab is a Barcelona-based studio working at the intersection of art, technology, and space, specializing in immersive, interactive, and audiovisual experiences. Rooted in a poetic, human perspective, their work uses technology as expressive language – each project exploring perception, the body, or emotion through light, image, sound, and movement. The result are spaces to be inhabited, not merely observed. Their site-specific installations span institutions and brands including Oceanogràfic València, Porcelanosa, HPE, and Cruz Roja – always balancing sensitive scale with strong artistic rigor.

Uncommon Studio (UK) present "Cultured"

About artwork:

In a period of rapid technological change and industry uncertainty, Cultured reframes creativity as something grounded in shared agency rather than external forces. It's built on a simple proposition: our industry is Cultured, and our future is shaped by those who choose to participate.

About studio:

Uncommon was built to receive the world’s most important and influential briefs – across advertising, design, experience, entertainment, and beyond – and has since become a reference point powering diverse, award-winning, and globally recognised work for clients including EA Sports FC, SiriusXM, Quaker, and British Airways. The studio is the fastest-growing and most creatively awarded start-up of its generation.

Chapter 2: OFFF 2026 Main Titles by PJ Richardson

An audiovisual, cinematic work by American artist PJ Richardson that honors the speakers featured in this year’s festival lineup.

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The OFFF 2026 title sequence is a celebration of collective creativity – the designers, thinkers, and makers who come together to learn, inspire, and create. Through evolving typography, color, and form, it maps the creative journey: the anticipation, the process, the celebration. True to OFFF's rebellious DNA, the piece challenges perception … using the projection wall itself as a storytelling device, warping how we see and experience creativity. A visual metaphor for every creative path that leads to the same place: here, together, at OFFF.

Duration: 08:45

Credits:

Directors: PJ Richardson, Alex Liou, and Josh Pierce

Design and animation: PJ Richardson, Alex Liou, and Josh Pierce

Additional animation: Alejandro R. Mejía

Studio: Laundry Studios

Sound design and music: Cypher

Sound and music artists: John Black, Joris Van Grunsven, and Joseph Sims

Technical support: Alan Ng, Mike Penny, and Dave Grewal

Chapter 3: Collaborative piece of selected Open Call projects

In collaboration with the Belgian 3D studio Frameboy, The Screen presents a curated showcase of 280 works by both emerging and established creators, selected through a global Open Call by OFFF that attracted 735 participants from around the world.

Full list of selected participants – available here.

Sound design: Haring

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